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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: freebsd mirroring/release strategy over the next 12 months ?
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 02:27:10PM +1000, jason andrade wrote:

> o number of architectures being supported/released - is this likely to
>   increase ?

Yes, sooner or later.  For example, the PowerPC port might mature
enough this year to start building packages.

> o size of the freebsd archive - release and ISO images have been growing
>   but the real killer has been the multi architecture packages trees.
>=20
>   are there any plans to try and reduce this overall ? e.g not spin a
>   packages tree of this size out for every architecture ?

No, that would be counterproductive.  If you don't want to carry the
less popular architectures for space/bandwidth reasons then just
configure your mirror accordingly.

Kris

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